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A fast moving and topical business and finance show bringing you breaking business and economic news and financial market updates. Presented by former CEO and investment bank global trading head Peter Lewis, with over 30 years' industry experience. Join Peter and his expert guests for analysis and discussion on the day's top business stories live from 8 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. every weekday morning on RTHK Radio 3. We have a podcast to download after the show and you can also listen through the RTHK Radio 3 website live or later in the day. We welcome your questions, comments and feedback to read out in the show. You can email us at moneytalk@rthk.hk, post on our Facebook page "Money Talk on RTHK Radio 3 " or find us on twitter "MoneytalkR3") .

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The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit failed to issue a joint communique for the first time in its history yesterday after Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice-President Mike Pence clashed at the meeting in Papua New Guinea. Presid...

The draft Brexit agreement has led to political chaos in the UK with the British pound and London shares falling sharply. Several ministers have resigned, including the UK’s Brexit Secretary, who said the deal was “damaging for the economy and dev...

The latest economic data shows growth in two of the world’s largest economies turning negative in the third quarter. Germany’s economy shrank for the first time in three years by an annualised 0.8%. In Japan, economic growth declined by an annualis...

UK and EU officials have agreed the draft text of a Brexit agreement after months of negotiations in Brussels. A special cabinet meeting will be held later today as UK Prime Minister Theresa May seeks ministers' backing. Leading Brexiteers and the D...

US$40 billion has been wiped off the value of tech giant Apple, amid fears over declining sales of iPhones. The fall came after profit warnings from two of its key suppliers. Apple dragged shares on Wall Street sharply lower overnight.The EU’s Chi...

Alibaba has set a new Singles Day record with almost US$31 billion of sales in 24 hours. The first one billion was notched up within just 85 seconds of the event starting. The gross merchandise value was about 27% higher than last year’s amount, wh...

The US Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged as expected but stays on course for a December hike. The Federal Open Market Committee noted that business investment had slowed from its rapid pace seen earlier in the year. After the meeting...

After the most divisive US midterm elections in recent history, the Democrats have retaken control of the House of Representatives giving them the ability to thwart Presidential Trump’s legislative agenda for the remainder of his first term. However...

Polling stations have started to close across America in what has become the most expensive midterm election in US history. The polls favour Democrats to retake control of the House of Representatives but for the Republicans to maintain control of t...

The inaugural China International Import Fair opened yesterday in Shanghai. In his welcome address, President Xi Jinping positioned China as a global importer saying that his country would import US$30 trillion in goods and US$10 trillion in service...

The Trump administration is to reinstate all US sanctions on Iran removed under the 2015 nuclear deal from later today. The move targets both Iran and states that trade with it and the White House described it as "the toughest sanctions regime ever ...

US stocks and the Chinese yuan have rallied after President Trump said trade discussions with China were “moving along nicely.” In a tweet, the US President said he “had a long and very good conversation with President Xi Jinping with a heavy emphas...

A grim October for global stocks has come to an end with US$8 trillion of global equity market capitalization wiped out over the past month. The MSCI world equity index is down 8% for October, its worst month since 2012. In China stocks had their wo...

Fears about a global growth slowdown have increased after the latest data shows the Eurozone economy stumbled in the third quarter. GDP across the EU bloc rose by 0.2%, just half the pace seen in the previous quarter. In Italy, the economy failed t...

There’s been more volatility in global stocks in what’s turning into a dismal October for equity markets. Chinese shares sank by more than 3% and the yuan declined closer to the critical 7 level against the US dollar. On Wall Street, stocks were hit...

Growth in the US economy slowed in the third quarter but not as much as some analysts had been expecting. GDP grew at an annualised rate of 3.5% in the July to September period slowing from a pace of 4.2% in the second quarter.The October global st...

European and US shares have stabilised following sharp falls in Asian stocks yesterday. Tech shares rebounded ahead of earnings from Amazon and Alphabet following the biggest one-day fall on the Nasdaq in seven years the previous day. However, US fu...

October’s slump in global stock markets has continued with US shares erasing their gains for 2018 in a broad based sell off on Wall Street. In Asia, shares have slipped into a bear market with the MSCI Asia Pacific Index down more than 20% from its ...

Stocks in Asia, Europe and the US have sold off amid mounting geopolitical concerns and worries about a global growth slowdown. However, on Wall Street, shares rebounded from their lows as the session wore on. Treasury bonds, gold and the Japanese ...

Chinese stocks have seen their biggest one-day rise in two and a half years as mainland policy makers and regulators talk up the economy and try to reassure investors about the health of the stock market. However, US and European stocks have failed ...

Economic growth in China has missed expectations, slowing to 6.5%, the weakest level since the first quarter of 2009. Other data released on Friday provided further evidence of the slowdown with industrial production slipping to the slowest growth r...

The global stock selloff has resumed on worries about trade, interest rate hikes, slowing growth in China and escalating international anger at Saudi Arabia over the disappearance and suspected murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US Treasury Secre...

The Fed looks set to defy Donald Trump and continue raising interest rates. The minutes of the central bank’s September monetary policy meeting show a unanimous decision to raise rates by 25bps with several members seeing a need to continue raising ...

A series of geopolitical risks have rattled global markets. The deteriorating relationship between the US and China, the breakdown in Brexit talks, the disappearance of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the big losses by German Chancellor...

Global stocks tumbled last week with 79 out of 94 global equity indices lower over the five days. A total of US$6 trillion was wiped off the value of equity and debt markets. JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon warned that geopolitical flare-ups around the ...

Hong Kong Chief executive Carrie Lam has delivered her 2018 policy address As expected, her focus was on land supply for affordable housing. The centrepiece of her proposals is a controversial "Lantau Tomorrow" plan to build artificial islands to the e...

The International Monetary Fund has cut its global growth forecast saying economic expansion was being propped up by increasingly unsustainable policies and being undermined by populist and nationalist policies. It went on to warn that if President Tru...

Markets on the mainland reopened yesterday after the week-long national holiday with sharp falls in stocks and the yuan, as the relationship between the US and China worsens. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, criticised what he described as Donald Tru...

Ahead of the reopening of mainland markets after last week’s national holidays, China has cut the reserve requirement ratio for most commercial banks by 1%, freeing up around 1.2 trillion yuan of liquidity. Yesterday, China's Finance Minister Liu Kun s...

Several US companies and organisations including Apple and Amazon have had data stolen by China, according to a report from Bloomberg. The data had been siphoned off via tiny chips inserted on circuit boards made by Chinese company Super Micro Computer...

US Treasury bond yields have surged after the latest economic data from the US shows the country's services sector expanded at the fastest pace on record in September. Private sector job growth also exceeded expectations, hitting the highest level in s...

White House economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow said yesterday that trade talks between the US and China could resume in December, when policy makers meet in Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 meeting. He said, “the great hope here is that China will come t...

The US has reached a last-minute accord with Canada on the framework of a new trilateral trade deal known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which will replace the 25-year old NAFTA pact. President Trump said it will support "many hundreds o...

Hong Kong’s cost of money, Hibor, has jumped to a 10-year high as it becomes harder for banks to obtain funds, following the Fed’s interest rate increase. 11 commercial banks, accounting for three-quarters of outstanding mortgage loans in the city, hav...

James Ross is sitting in for Peter Lewis on today’s Money Talk and will be joined by Personal Wealth Adviser, Enzio von Pfeil and Mark Michelson, Chairman of the Asia CEO Forum, IMA Asia. On the phone from Taipei is Ross Feingold, Taiwan-based Politica...

US stocks have fallen overnight after a hard-hitting speech from President Trump on trade at the UN general assembly in which he singled out China, accusing the mainland of gaining an unfair advantage over the US through relentless product dumping, cur...

Dialogue between the US and China has broken down with further tariffs on US$200bn of Chinese goods and US$60bn of US products come into effect today. Beijing authorities have called off planned visits by Chinese officials to Washington for trade talks...

China is reportedly planning to cut the average tax it charges on imports from the majority of its trading partners, starting next month. It comes as the US imposes tariffs on another $200bn of Chinese goods from Monday. The tariff cut will make US goo...

China has responded to the latest round of US tariffs by imposing new trade levies on US$60bn of American goods. They will come into effect on September 24, the same day as the US duties are implemented. The Chinese commerce ministry said the mainland ...

The White House has announced that the US will impose 10% tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports, effective September 24, and those duties will rise to 25% at the end of the year. National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said Preside...

President Trump has cast doubt over his Treasury Secretary’s efforts to restart trade talks with China. China’s foreign ministry and ministry of commerce said yesterday that it welcomes the approach from Steven Mnuchin to see if new tariffs on $200bn o...

Apple has announced the launch of three new iPhone models, two of which are larger than before and a new smart watch. The tech giant describes the iPhone 10S as its “most advanced” handset yet with better picture resolution and sounds than the iPhone 1...

Today, a special edition of Money Talk is broadcast live from the CLSA Investors' Forum at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Wanchai. Joining Peter Lewis to discuss some of the defining issues affecting Asian markets and the economy will be Xen Gladstone, Head ...

Alibaba’s executive chairman Jack Ma has announced that he will step down from his role at the helm of the company in a year’s time and hand over the reins to Daniel Zhang, currently Alibaba's chief executive. The one-year handover period is aimed at a...

US President Donald Trump is poised to announce duties of up to 25% on US$200 billion of Chinese products. The US President also says he is ready to slap levies on another US$267 billion of goods at short notice meaning virtually all Chinese exports to...

Joining James Ross on today's Money Talk to comment on the global markets are Nitin Dialdas, Chief Investment Officer at Mandarin Capital, and David Roche, President and Global Strategist of Independent Strategy. Providing the view from Taiwan is Ross ...

Joining Andrew Work on today's Money Talk to take a closer look at the main business headlines are Stewart Aldcroft, Chairman of CitiTrust, Brad Gibson, Portfolio Manager (Asia-Pacific Fixed Income) at Alliance Bernstein, and on the line from Washingto...

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